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Platform virtualization - top 25 providers (software, hardware, combined)December 29 2008

In the article about cloud computing/utility computing/grid computing  we’ve presented the most important companies which offers cloud computing hosting.In this article we will present the companies which offers means (mainly, the software and hardware) which powers most of the cloud computing hosting providers.

 

 

As Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_virtualization puts it:
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In computing, platform virtualization is a term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. Virtualization hides the physical characteristics of computing resources from their users, be they applications, or end users. The term has been widely used since the 1960s.

Platform virtualization is perfo

Web Help Desk offers now a free version of its help desk softwareDecember 12 2008

WebHelpDesk  is known for its Java help desk software. The lite and full version is not free (between $180 and $900).
But now they are offering a free version of their software for small business, K-12 institutions, and small government organizations.
The Free Edition has no trial period or expiration date, is completely free from ads, and includes one full year of help desk software upgrades.
It’s a good move because they know there are some good free help desk software outhere like osTicket  (more software here) and also paid software.
Thus, they try to get more users of their product which in time might become paying customers.

New blogging and content management software from Microsoft: OxiteDecember 10 2008

Today Microsoft entered in competition with Wordpress (or, at least, that what it seems).
Wordpress  is a blogging software and is considered also a content management system (especially with the help of various plugins). It is very used in the blogging world (another competitor is Movable Type) and not only.

Now Microsoft wants a piece of this market (is there a market Microsoft doesn’t want a piece? Rumours has it that it also wants a piece from the smart mobile terminals where the iPhone is king).Microsoft released today a blogging and content management software called Oxite. It is, yes, open source and in alpha version (according to ReadWriteWeb).

Python 3.0 (final) programming language releasedDecember 4 2008

Python 3.0 (known also as “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) is a new version of the legendary programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains.

Python is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Google is one of the power users of this dynamic programming language.

This new version, released on December 3 2008, is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.

See what’s new in Python 3000 here  and read the online documentation here.

If you are interested in what the

Web conferencing platform DimDim exits beta and release source codeDecember 3 2008

Dimdim, the world’s open source web conferencing company, today launched its new Dimdim 4.5 edition and simultaneously released the complete source code to the open source community.

 

With this release, Dimdim officially exits its beta phase while introducing significant new customer-requested features designed to enable businesses, organizations and consumers to cut the costs of their expensive legacy conferencing products while enjoying improved performance, openness and ease of use.
So, if you pay for WebEx conferencing software (or other software like this) now it’s a good time to take a look at DimDim. After all, this isn’t the best economic times we’ve seen so cutting costs where we can should be a priority for all of us.

Dimdim also introduced the new SynchroLive Communication Platform that automatically scales its performance to ensure all live communications are synchronized; whether sharing the deskt